Phillip Khan-Panni

Phillip Khan-Panni is a retired professional speaker and trainer, Fellow and co-Founder of the Professional Speaking Association and the author of 13 books, mostly on communication skills. Formerly Senior Copywriter at Reader’s Digest, London, and CEO of PKP Communicators, his career highs have included starting a Direct Marketing agency, MD of a magazine publisher and Express Newspapers’ most successful Classified Ad manager of all time, where he tripled revenue in under one year. He now lives with his wife Evelyn in Naas, just outside Dublin, Ireland, where he writes CVs for senior people and is active in Toastmasters International.

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Seeing it differently - be Maverick. Big Jack is dead. The man who placed football on a par with traditional Irish obsessions has gone to the Big Stadium in the Sky. In the midst of...

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Is there a target on your back? Felix wanted to belong, but from his early years he actively alienated his peers. It made him unpopular, and therefore unhappy, and it made him a victim of...

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